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marcgravell @marcgravell
Mar 12, 2017, 12:56:48 AM
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8yo: "I've put my tooth in my room but I'm not saying where - it is to see if the tooth fairy is real or not" - this shit…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2017, 12:58:43 AM
"At this point you will think: trees. It's a reasonable thought." https://t.co/1HEPb0hebr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2017, 7:23:03 PM
Top million most common passwords, by length. Source: https://t.co/cdZRFLpLvt https://t.co/FhZ8uZvWRw
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2017, 5:59:19 PM
@zlkerbaz @christianlanza my original tweet is from 11 Aug 2015!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2017, 10:30:37 AM
Password rules frustrate experts, befuddle users, and make us *less* secure: https://t.co/0gf3j4UQkg https://t.co/gporb9FNCJ
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BBCNewsbeat @BBCNewsbeat
Mar 10, 2017, 10:08:31 AM
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Our favourite live TV moment of the week by far 👶😂 https://t.co/GXSCUl5hYI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2017, 5:25:42 AM
Password Rules Are Bullshit https://t.co/0gf3j4UQkg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2017, 3:42:11 AM
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all hail entropy!
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RichRogersIoT @RichRogersIoT
Mar 10, 2017, 2:36:16 AM
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"Don't underestimate the compounding awesomeness of continually fixing small broken things." - @rands https://t.co/0AhkB…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2017, 2:33:55 AM
I've always envisioned the eminently punchable face of Tim Ferriss pictured next to Stross "straight white male, lowest difficulty there is"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2017, 2:29:44 AM
"he lived his life by the Holy Bible of Tim Ferriss’ 4 Hour Workweek" sweet Jesus how I've despised Tim Ferriss https://t.co/nVQsx9995K
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 9, 2017, 8:51:21 PM
Finally got our Fidget cubes from kickstarter! Well, that was fun for approximately 52 seconds... https://t.co/KDl37VuGco
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Martina @Martina
Mar 9, 2017, 6:26:26 AM
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I have tremendous respect for men and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 9, 2017, 1:26:08 AM
Imagine plugging a $200 box into your laptop / whatever that increases graphics performance 4x-10x. That's eGPU via Thunderbolt 3.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 9, 2017, 1:25:24 AM
Set up external GPU via Thunderbolt 3 for the 1st time.. and it worked. Prices need to come down but it is AMAZING https://t.co/QCl8fYXSeU
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The tax paid by each US cable/sat. subscriber for each type of sport. https://t.co/BYbPhSExyj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 6:44:35 PM
This gender role reversed debate is kinda blowing my mind. You should watch it. https://t.co/U3RWrexs65
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 6:33:09 PM
What happened when gender roles were reversed in the Trump / Clinton debates? https://t.co/U3RWrexs65
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 4:58:40 PM
Guess who I did not see as a reasonable-ish politician
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 4:58:17 PM
I remain mystified and amazed at the number of people who viscerally hated Hillary Clinton's guts. I saw her as a reasonable-ish politician.
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Five years ago, Internet Explorer was the most common web browser.
And Firefox still had a significant marketshare. https://t.c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 3:08:45 AM
oh my god this is totally white noise sleep assistance for geeks https://t.co/fZr9AuE0gX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 2:39:49 AM
The ascendance of Africa this century makes me unreasonably happy. Here's a continent that, let's face it, got a raw deal from 1600-on
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dhmontgomery @dhmontgomery
Mar 8, 2017, 2:09:21 AM
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Love this map of how nearly every European country named syphilis after a neighbor they disliked: https://t.co/R1bqpPW0VB…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 1:29:18 AM
Got a love letter from my old pall Russ Walter https://t.co/lxIP1GHLgX https://t.co/JCAy4kYtJY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 12:33:11 AM
"There was little advantage in reasoning clearly, while much was to be gained from winning arguments." https://t.co/7du8T5zCwF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2017, 12:25:52 AM
Every time I try to read a New Yorker article, I get Dieresis-ed right in the face https://t.co/Kl0rDb57ih
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2017, 6:58:29 PM
BASH may be the shittiest programming language ever. Really gives PHP a run for its money.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2017, 4:57:35 PM
I suuuuper hate the "I find it convenient to do totally weird shit and it's ALL YOUR FAULT WHEN IT GOES WRONG!" guy
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@codinghorror - I had to look up the video that Neil Cicierega sampled. So not disappointed https://t.co/86cIcXWbmi
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2017, 4:29:16 PM
Think about.. the value.. and the usage.. of a computer.. with a THREE HUNDRED MEGABYTE hard drive https://t.co/wm8ZbEZgkL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2017, 3:45:05 PM
Big Bang Theory is hilarious, innit? https://t.co/PeekuCeOKK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2017, 3:06:34 PM
I enjoyed this overview of common sense security for SAAS companies https://t.co/nfh8Wl7hvG
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FastCompany @FastCompany
Mar 7, 2017, 2:44:58 AM
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"If someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they'd fallen in love." https://…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2017, 12:27:42 AM
Nbd just reading some blog entries https://t.co/G9ljwuCAvX
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TheYear20XX @TheYear20XX
Mar 7, 2017, 12:03:46 AM
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🎶I'm a finch 🎶I'm a plover 🎶I'm a gull 🎶I'm a warbler 🎶It is true what you just heard 🎶I'm made of several birds
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ChuckWendig @ChuckWendig
Mar 6, 2017, 11:58:02 PM
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Here's your reminder that there is/was a Lyme vaccine for humans, but we can't get it because of early anti-vaxxers: https…
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Kirti_Thorat @Kirti_Thorat
Mar 6, 2017, 8:28:36 PM
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Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth at @StackOverflow! <3 #FemaleFounders
https://t.co/J6ZLb3jh60
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kevindente @kevindente
Mar 6, 2017, 4:19:57 PM
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So apparently product/market fit for bitcoin is extortion?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 5, 2017, 11:41:58 PM
Pretty soon even @dhh will be switching to Windows. https://t.co/Y5gdKMirKS https://t.co/KKMkTp1aMd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 5, 2017, 9:04:25 PM
@andybrk 16gb ram and 500gb disk would be insanely expensive in the cloud. It is even hard to get CPUs as fast as the meager i7-7500u
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 5, 2017, 4:51:26 PM
@andybrk to get 16gb of ram you would need to be at $80/month. You get more cpus but same slow CPU speeds.. also 500gb disk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 5, 2017, 4:11:36 PM
I colocated a $600 Ali Express mini pc for $15/month and it is 2x faster than "the cloud" https://t.co/ylH5DqENq8
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TechnicallyRon @TechnicallyRon
Mar 5, 2017, 4:09:10 PM
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The new issue of furious twitter egg magazine is out tomorrow! Don't forget to pick up your copy! https://t.co/K7ITYWyb…
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DanielPink @DanielPink
Mar 5, 2017, 4:07:37 PM
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America, 2017: YMCA won’t let members watch cable news while working out anymore for ‘safety’ reasons ... https://t.co/DC1Q…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 5, 2017, 6:09:16 AM
The great thing is someone sent me a PM opening with "you probably don't care" and https://t.co/mXoZIGjrlo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 5, 2017, 3:49:02 AM
wow Halt and Catch Fire got mega serious in season 3, it's all like lol whee old computer nostalgia and then suddenly 😭
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 5, 2017, 1:47:58 AM
I wish I had been a parent when I originally saw "Children of Men". A world without children, I had no idea how dark that vision was.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 4, 2017, 9:57:57 PM
@chrisbratt @mathowie Slack was and is a ton better
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starsandrobots @starsandrobots
Mar 4, 2017, 4:04:26 PM
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We portray engineering as being a very sterile, logical process but I experience it mostly as focused dissatisfaction u…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 4, 2017, 12:01:23 AM
AMD Ryzen makes a pretty great server chip https://t.co/CZFMuIGSGx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 3, 2017, 5:44:33 PM
I am a fan of Emoji skin color choice, but I can't help feeling that anyone who doesn't choose the yellow default is a Simpsons racist
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This awkwardly costumed child speaks the voice of half a nation. https://t.co/zgPGxuFj78
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 3, 2017, 2:51:50 PM
@slashclee we did and it was a fucking disaster. do not recommend
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 3, 2017, 2:33:55 PM
by that I mean 99.9999% reliable, ultra redundant, etc file storage. I guess there's a reazon Amazon S3 was Amazon's first big service?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 3, 2017, 2:33:16 PM
we have not found bare metal colocation to be difficult, with one exception: persistent file storage. That part, strangely, is quite hard.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 11:51:01 PM
‘What sort of happiness is on offer, and what is the price we might pay to achieve it?’ https://t.co/l3CkcOu1ny
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 5:37:54 PM
I have super mixed feelings about this brave new world of "watch this 5 minute video to learn something you could have read in 15 seconds"
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There's a downside to working on something big and important: https://t.co/AkHwOp7jY3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 5:51:06 AM
The Shatner version is so much better than the Pulp original. Go figure. https://t.co/xOxE0nAC6d
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 2:20:17 AM
Did I ever tell you about that one time I checked in a robots.txt that deindexed all Stack Overflow content from Google? Kinda awesome.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 1:53:31 AM
it's like, "I'm just gonna scroll until I see Morrissey". Oh yes there we go, of course.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 1:52:49 AM
reading these "x greatest song/albums" lists from England is always an interesting exercise in cultural differences https://t.co/MdGcZ81JkU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 1:42:20 AM
We wanna be free
We wanna be free to do .. what we wanna do
And we wanna get loaded
And we wanna have a good time
https://t.co/jgTmuCoPBq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 1:00:36 AM
If ✅🐎🔋🖇️ is (roughly) analogous to "correct horse battery staple".. then Chinese is ... kinda like.. talking in emoji? https://t.co/3q04rDvNqP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 12:34:19 AM
it just occurred to me that correct horse battery staple is a 4 character password in Chinese? https://t.co/rB54Yuoktr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 2, 2017, 12:13:49 AM
Very happy @bmeurer is working on Chrome/Android JS perf issues. This hurt us immensely (10x!) on mobile. https://t.co/tHS9E9WAVr
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secretGeek @secretGeek
Mar 1, 2017, 8:47:46 PM
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I've done it. I've created the ultimate star wars t-shirt. https://t.co/wrVWIc1iyJ https://t.co/rptNYkjdQZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 1, 2017, 6:30:11 PM
"The number of times you've posted in a given topic is not a leaderboard; it's a record of failing to communicate." https://t.co/X3dFR3l3BG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 1, 2017, 5:55:46 PM
When I put on my product manager polo shirt for @discourse and describe what I want our first run experience to look like in 2017 https://t.co/lPr0l6NHGr
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jeffjarvis @jeffjarvis
Mar 1, 2017, 5:16:36 PM
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ClickHole @ClickHole
Mar 1, 2017, 4:19:04 PM
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This Inspiring Nonprofit Sends People Into The Amazon Rain Forest To Teach Indigenous Tribes Who Super Mario Is https://t.co
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 1, 2017, 12:27:41 AM
The old adage that "premium" xtra memory speed does not matter is.. less true today. https://t.co/VJo7eTEB1q https://t.co/pBOrUiXzpf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 6:26:21 PM
I just installed 3600 Mhz DDR4 and I am all hopped up on Hot Fries so basically I can do anything rn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 5:55:26 PM
<screaming, through tears> I don't have a problem I can STOP ANY TIME I WANT https://t.co/FEIvl14u7c
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johndaguerra @johndaguerra
Feb 28, 2017, 5:47:00 PM
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This avocado's global illumination was baked in even though it's a dynamic object. Classic tech art mistake https://t.co/…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 3:56:14 PM
"I get it. It is an object going into a hole. Now please, stop sending me messages about it." https://t.co/84tBl3bEEx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 3:40:23 PM
It's almost like having people throw millions of dollars at you and tell you that you are a god kinda .. starts to turn you into an a-hole
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 3:39:22 PM
@han0z that's *exactly* the kind of guy he is, too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 3:31:09 PM
"Kamel gives him one star." ICE .. COLD .. https://t.co/q6Yu3tdzeW
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eviltrout @eviltrout
Feb 28, 2017, 3:25:51 PM
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Are you a woman, from an underrepresented group and/or a student interested in developing Discourse? Read this: https://t.co
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 3:17:12 PM
Hello, my name is Jeff. I am humble, but also, I brag.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 28, 2017, 2:06:03 PM
Hey @standardnotes, @discourse supports data privacy and ownership out of the box. https://t.co/ntCvVBDCtn
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This man took two bullets to try to save the lives of two strangers at a bar. He is an America hero and deserves White House re…
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SuperDalgas @SuperDalgas
Feb 27, 2017, 10:53:25 PM
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To those who think it's a good idea to put your IP CCTV cameras on the Internet STOP IT! You are part of the problem https…
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fmg_twtr @fmg_twtr
Feb 27, 2017, 9:33:23 PM
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Must read: When Evidence Says No, But Doctors Say Yes https://t.co/dSWGZNQcwb?
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Maryellen @Maryellen
Feb 27, 2017, 8:46:21 PM
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I've thought about "The Girl Who Accidentally Sent the Pic of Nic Cage Instead of Her Résumé" approximately 1x/day for the l…
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ghewgill @ghewgill
Feb 27, 2017, 11:36:06 AM
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@codinghorror My daughter found my stack of stickers and improved her lunchbox https://t.co/0wHm79Y5I6
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JessieJessup @JessieJessup
Feb 26, 2017, 5:06:45 PM
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Bill Paxton directed and was featured in one of the greatest music videos of all time. FISH HEADS. Thank you sir. This is…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 26, 2017, 2:30:38 AM
Ryzen up, back on the street Did the time, took the chances Went the distance, now back on their feet Just AMD and their will to survive
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This image shows how polarized the US senate has become. It's going to be hard to repair. https://t.co/g9DIWvlCy3
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this idea is genius: https://t.co/J4f0BVeBEQ
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amyjokim @amyjokim
Feb 25, 2017, 5:44:44 PM
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What do @RichardGarriott @veen & @codinghorror have in common? They're our next 3 episodes - subscribe now https://t.co/aAocd…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 24, 2017, 4:23:31 PM
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to watch the 1995 movie Congo, since I missed it originally. https://t.co/awJiFXuYvf
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